Fertilizer
topic on 3 shows · 11 statements across 8 episodes
the Neon Show 
Catalyst 
the Green Blueprint
11 statements about Fertilizer, every show
Pinkowski: Fertilizer accounts for 5% to 7% of global emissions
“Today, fertilizer uses coal or natural gas and accounts for about five to seven percent of global emissions if you account for the manufacturing and the field application emissions.”
Linville: Strategic fertilizer reserves are impractical because fertilizer degrades rapidly
“Fertilizer just does not store that well. It breaks down very quickly. And there's always a question like, well, where does it go to? If you ever need to call on it, who gets it at what price and how does it get there? And so it's just not something that reall…”
Linville: India recently bought 2.5 million tons of fertilizer above $900/ton
“They paid one of the highest prices we've seen in a very, very long time here recently to buy two and a half million tons. Over 900 dollars a ton. I think the West Coast prices were 935 dollars a ton. East Coast prices were nine 50 plus.”
Linville: Global Fertilizer Crunch Is Unprecedented and Directly Threatens Food Supply
“Everybody focuses on oil and gas and things like that coming from the Persian Gulf. You can't eat or drink those products. End of the day, and this is why I think fertilizer becomes such an important topic. It grows the food that we need to eat. It impacts the…”
Grunwald: Half of All Fertilizer Applied to Fields Is Wasted
“Actually we already waste half of the fertilizer that we're putting down on these fields.”
Kann: Just 300 massive Haber-Bosch plants produce all global fertilizer ammonia
“Like there's like 300 some of them in the world, which is crazy, because they produce all the ammonia for all the fertilizer in the entire universe. They're massive, massive plants.”
Davidson: Crops absorb only about half of applied nitrogen fertilizer
“They take up, on average, roughly half of the fertilizer that we apply. Some crops take up more than half, some crops take up less than half, but a good rule of thumb, on average, is that only about half of the fertilizers we put on the land, and cropland, get…”
Davidson: Farmers overapply fertilizer as an insurance policy for bumper crop years
“That additional amount that I spend on fertilizers, yeah, it's significant, but it's, relatively speaking, it's not that bad of a deal as an insurance policy to make sure that I get the best possible yield I can.”
Jenny Chase: Solar will be built for green hydrogen production by 2030
“And that's even before you start thinking about, are we going to build solar to make hydrogen? And I suspect that by 2030 we are, just because we've got no idea how else to manage the problems of intermittency and how to decarbonize steel and fertilizer.”
Dell: Fertilizer and Plastics Cause 80% of Chemical Sector Emissions
“Depending on exactly how you count it, fertilizer and plastic usually comes out to be like between 75 and 80% of all the GHGs from the whole sector.”
Kahn: Indian agricultural policy focuses on grains and fertilizer over horticulture
“The Indian government is not active in all aspects of agriculture. They are primarily active in, in grains, much more so than in horticulture. They are Active in fertilizer and sugar. And then when you move away from that and you move towards you know, when yo…”